String Theory Group Meetings: Spring 2008
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The group meetings are held on Wednesdays, 3:10 p.m., in 402 Old Le Conte
Hall,
unless explicitly stated otherwise.
(click here for the Fall 2007 schedule)
 January 23
I-Sheng Yang (UCB/LBNL), Boltzmann Babies in the Proper Time
Measure
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
January 30
Cindy Keeler (UCB/LBNL), Wrapping Interactions and the
Konishi Operator
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 6
Allan Adams (MIT), Lifting Moduli in the Heterotic String
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 13
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Ori Ganor (UCB/LBNL), On Velocity Gradients in AdS N=4
Hydrodynamics
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL
February 20
Yu Nakayama (UCB/LBNL), Fate of Unstable Census Taker --
Live Long with Holographic Quantum Gravity
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
February 27
Matthew Kleban (NYU), When Worlds Collide
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
March 5
Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech), Recent Developments in Heterotic
String Theory
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
March 12
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Christian Bauer (UCB/LBNL), Factorization for Jet
Production
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
March 19
Chris Beem (UCB/LBNL), New Applications for Geometric
Transitions
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
March 26
No official speaker, Spring break
April 2
John Preskill (Caltech), Black Holes as Mirrors
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
April 9
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Ben Freivogel (UCB/LBNL), Lifetimes of String Theory Vacua and the
Boltzmann Brain Problem
12:30 p.m., INPA Room, LBNL
April 16
Ben Craps (Brussels), Quantum Resolution of Cosmological
Singularities Using AdS/CFT
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
April 23
Chris Beem (UCB/LBNL), Fractional Branes and SUSY Breaking from
Background Fluxes
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
April 30
No speaker
May 7
Michael Dine (Santa Cruz), Symmetries in String Theory
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
May 14
JOINT 4D SEMINAR/STRING THEORY GROUP MEETING
Mary K. Gaillard (UCB/LBNL), Anomalies and Anomaly Cancellation
in Supergravity
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
May 21
Yu Nakayama (UCB/LBNL), Dangerous Liouville Wall -- Exactly
Marginal but Non-Conformal Deformation
3:10 p.m., 402 Le Conte
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